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How can we mourn?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n by Janet Sillett<\/em><\/p>\n how can we mourn a city our eulogy a distortion stretched threadbare \u201cDon\u2019t scroll past\u201d<\/p>\n but I do now, often, nearly twelve months on seven, eight years old images scars of memory how can I mourn a city old men in the library shop windows wisteria around the graveyard in its second bloom of summer today silence may drown the cacophony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How can we mourn? by Janet Sillett how can we mourn a citywho are not its victims?we do not hear the dronesor smell decay we do not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":17497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
who are not its victims?
we do not hear the drones
or smell decay
we do not feel the shaking of foundations<\/p>\n
gaslighting humanity<\/p>\n
a child swaddled by his father in blood rags
a tiny girl dancing<\/p>\n
I find a book with images of a death camp after liberation
stacked corpses blood gathering on the dirt floor
ungendered unnamed a child\u2019s shoe crushed by bones<\/p>\n
pinned in my head
my birthright<\/p>\n
like those on my back
embedded<\/p>\n
when it is impossible to shut out the clamour of genocide<\/p>\n
in shorts and white socks
dull sandals
waiting for their wives in print dresses<\/p>\n
colour refracted in glass
splintered <\/p>\n
a shadow of its earlier birth<\/p>\n